This follows some news last week about how Vice is planning to launch in
the UK too. Indeed, the Broadcast magazine article suggested that they're
looking at 12 territories around the world. They note that this will follow
a US launch first. From the piece, it definitely doesn't sound like a
While the announced nightly news program on HBO has yet to happen, the
digital news provider has made a deal with A+E Networks to take over the
History spinoff H2 next year and turn it into a Vice channel--no indication
if it will be directly competing with CNN, MSNBC, FNC, Al Jazeera America